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Tuesday, July 3, 2012

LGBT Pride events

Events celebrating
and protesting LGBT rights took place in many parts of the world in the
last several months. Pride parades were met with violence or
intimidation in Russia, Georgia, and Albania while other places saw wild
street parties. Three million people celebrated on the streets of Sao
Paulo, Brazil, often considered the biggest Pride event in the world.
Activists in Uganda and Chile sought to change laws, while in the United
States Barack Obama became the first American president to endorse
same-sex marriage. Gathered here are pictures from events related to
gay rights issues, LGBT Pride celebrations, and the International Day
Against Homophobia and Transphobia. -- Lane Turner (39 photos total)

Mark
Wilson carries a rainbow flag during San Francisco's 42nd annual gay
pride parade on June 24, 2012. Organizers said more than 200 floats,
vehicles and groups of marchers took part in the parade. (Noah
Berger/Associated Press)

An
attendee with rainbow-colored lips pauses during the annual gay pride
parade in Sao Paulo June 10, 2012. About three million people took part
in the parade under the theme of "Homophobia has a cure". (Yasuyoshi
Chiba/AFP/GettyImages)

Revelers
dance in front of the Stonewall Inn during the New York gay pride march
on June 24, 2012. The annual civil rights demonstration commemorates
the Stonewall riots of 1969, which erupted after a police raid on a gay
bar, the Stonewall Inn on Christopher Street. (Michael Nagle/Getty
Images)

A
participant dressed as the "Pink Panther" joins the "Regenbogenparade"
(Rainbow Parade) in Vienna on June 16, 2012. (Herwig Prammer/Reuters)

LAPD officers march in the Los Angeles pride parade in West Hollywood, Calif. on June 10, 2012. (Jonathan Alcorn/Reuters)

Jak
Kazmarek rides with the "Dykes on Bikes" as they kick off San
Francisco's 42nd annual gay pride parade on June 24, 2012. (Noah
Berger/Associated Press)

Sean
Sutton (left) greets his boyfriend of two years, U.S. Navy sailor
Jonathan Jewell, with a kiss after Jewell returned from a seven-month
deployment aboard the USS Stennis in Bremerton, Wash. on March 2, 2012.
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta says that with the repeal last year of
the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” law that prohibited gays from serving openly
in the military, gays and lesbians can now be proud to be in uniform.
(Joe Dyer/seattlepi.com/Associated Press)

Members
of the Portland Men's Gay Chorus perform in the annual gay pride parade
in Portland, Ore. on June 18, 2012. (Randy L. Rasmusse/The
Oregonian/Associated Press)

An
Indian dancer from the transgender community sits in the lap of a
participant as part of a performance during a conference in New Delhi on
June 2, 2012. The event, called the first national Hijra Habba,
brought together transgenders, eunuchs, government representatives and
non-governmental organizations to discuss ways of achieving equality for
members of the community in India. (Kevin Frayer/Associated Press)

Albanian
gay, lesbian and human rights activists cycle under the rain to press
for their rights along the main street of Tirana on May 14, 2012.
Activists shelved plans for a larger gay pride parade to coincide with
International Day Against Homophobia after a deputy defense minister
said they should be beaten with thick sticks. (Stringer/Reuters)

A
supporter of the LGBT community joins an event marking the
"International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia" in Yangon,
Myanmar. Myanmar held its first gay pride celebrations on May 17,
organizers said, in a sign of liberalizing social attitudes paralleling
political reforms in the army-ruled nation. (Ye Aung
Thu/AFP/GettyImages)

Samba
Chesterfield, Director of the Gays and Lesbians Association of
Zimbabwe, prepares to hoist their official flag alongside the Zimbabwean
flag during a belated commemoration of the May 17 International Day
against Xenophobia and Transphobia in Harare, Zimbabwe on May, 19, 2012.
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has often called for gays and
lesbians to be punished for their behavior which he said was worse than
pigs and dogs. (Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi/Associated Press)

U.S.
President Barack Obama hosts a reception in honor of national LGBT
Pride Month in the East Room of the White House on June 15, 2012 in
Washington, DC. In the midst of a re-election campaign against former
Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, Obama's recent declaration of support
for same-sex marriage was celebrated as a key endorsement among gay
rights groups. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Maximiliano
Hott (right) and Jorge Aravena kiss during a session in the Chilean
senate after approval of an anti-discrimination bill in Valparaiso on
May 9, 2012. According to local media, the Senate approved the new law
which establishes that every Chilean, including LGBT individuals, will
be guaranteed protection reflecting international human rights law.
(Eliseo Fernandez/Reuters)

Gay
rights activists gather at Kampala's High Court on June 25, 2012, where
the court began hearing a landmark legal case filed by gay activists
against the government over the closure of a rights workshop. Four
campaigners lodged a lawsuit against ethics and integrity minister Simon
Lokodo after he ordered police to raid and shut down a meeting of gay
rights activists in February in the town of Entebbe, Uganda. (Isaac
Kasamani/AFP/GettyImages)

A
gay rights activist (right) clashes with an Orthodox Christian activist
in Tbilisi on May 17, 2012. Dozens of gay rights activists marched on
the streets to mark The International Day Against Homophobia and
Transphobia were stopped by Orthodox Christian activists. (David
Mdzinarishvili/Reuters)

An
anti gay rights activist shows a badge during a flash mob organized by
gay rights protesters in St.Petersburg, Russia on May 17, 2012.
(Valentina Svistunova/Interpress/Reuters)

A
man (right), protesting against a gay pride parade, attacks a gay
rights activist near the headquarters of the Moscow city Duma in central
Moscow on May 27, 2012. (Maxim Shemetov/Reuters)

Interior
Ministry officers detain a gay rights activist during a gay pride
parade, unsanctioned by the city authorities, near the Mayor's office in
central Moscow on May 27, 2012. (Maxim Shemetov/Reuters)

Practicing
Mormons march in a gay pride parade in Salt Lake City, Utah on June 3,
2012. Over 300 active Mormons and more than 5,000 members of the LGBT
community with their supporters marched in the parade as part of the
Utah Pride Festival. (Jim Urquhart/Reuters)

A tourist looks at participants in a pride parade in Ljubljana, Slovenia on June 2, 2012. (Srdjan Zivulovic/Reuters)

A
child tries to catch balloons attached to a man joining a gay pride
parade in Warsaw on June 2, 2012. (Wojtek Radwanski/AFP/GettyImages)

Municipality
workers paint a pedestrian crossing in the colors of a rainbow flag
before the start of the annual gay pride parade in Tel Aviv on June 8,
2012. (Amir Cohen/Reuters)

Participants march during the second gay pride parade in Split, Croatia on June 9, 2012. (Antonio Bronic/Reuters)

People participate in a gay pride parade in Sao Paulo, Brazil on June 10, 2012. (Andre Penner/Associated Press)

A
huge rainbow flag is unfold during the annual gay pride parade in Sao
Paulo, Brazil on June 10, 2012. About three million people celebrated
the theme "Homophobia has a cure". (Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP/GettyImages)

Participants march with rainbow flags during a gay pride parade in Zagreb, Croatia on June 16, 2012. (Antonio Bronic/Reuters)

Demonstrators march for gay rights in San Jose, Costa Rica on June 16, 2012. (Kent Gilbert/Reuters)

People
demonstrate against the first gay pride in Thessaloniki, Greece on June
23, 2012. The bishop of Thessaloniki opposed the city's first-ever gay
pride march, calling the residents of the northern port city to protest
the event. (Sakis Mitrolidis/AFP/GettyImages)

Marcher
Benn Mendoza carries fellow marcher Tony Mitchells as they participate
in the gay pride parade in New York on June 24, 2012. (Keith
Bedford/Reuters)

A participant pauses before Berlin's annual Christopher Street Day parade on June 23, 2012. (John MacDougall/AFP/GettyImages)

A
celebrant poses for photographers as activists walk past carrying a gay
pride flag during celebrations marking the International Day Against
Homophobia in Havana on May 12, 2012. International Day Against
Homophobia is celebrated globally on May 17 commemorating the World
Health Organization's declassification of homosexuality as a mental
illness. (Javier Galeano/Associated Press)

Members
of the LGBT community pass by a cathedral during the XII Parade of
Sexual Diversity in Guatemala City on June 23, 2012. (Jorge Dan
Lopez/Reuters)

Demonstrators
march past the ancient Colosseum during a gay pride parade in Rome on
June 23, 2012. (Alessandra Tarantino/Associated Press)